A little less than 20 hours until possibly the most contentious Olympics in the last 20-something years opens in Beijing. Without going into what is so contentious about it - you'd have to be living on Pluto if you've missed the flame wars both sides have been throwing - let's have a look at the glorious National Stadium, otherwise known as the ( Read more... )

First an aside: am I the only one who thinks the whole Miley Cyrus topless saga should be promptly thrown out the window, simply because far from looking suggestive or anywhere approaching seductive, she looks like a vampiric banshee just woken from her slumber and ready to dig her claws into the nearest warm-blooded creature ( Read more... )

Back about a few years ago, Sydney was rocked by the ethnic violence at Cronulla beaches that saw mounting tensions between Lebanese Australians and white Australians finally erupt into a massive brawl ( Read more... )

Unless you've been living in a bubble impenetrable to news and current affairs, you must have heard of the current impasse of Tibetans versus Chinese government that has sent the Olympic torch scuttling through the back streets of San Francisco like some criminal cargo needing to be furtively shipped overseas at the first opportunity ( Read more... )

This is another issue I can't resist commenting on, even though I really don't know enough toHow many people in China really gives a damn about human rights problems going on outside their cosy dens? Even to the amorality occuring on their own downtrodden soil - the range of poisonous toys and food and cosmetics, the sad reality that many female ( Read more... )

"Don't blame skinny stars for anorexia".

.....Well, I find the argument logically flawed.

Former anorexics also showed a greater tendency to pay attention to detail and were overly concerned about making mistakes.

Adolescent concern with body image was almost always a passing phase, he said.Okaaaay, so he's basically saying that the evidence ( Read more... )

SA getting anime adaptionOkay, I think a lot of people will enjoy this, because it has some really unique characters, is shoujo but not romance overboard, the girl is sufficiently cool and capable but thick-skulled (romance-related), and the art is pretty nice ( Read more... )

Spent the last few days inundated with news and commentaries and opinions and opinionated articles about the election, which is now almost a week behind yet its news show no sign of ebbing ( Read more... )

Look who's talking.

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Dude.

If I had a stepdaughter that I kicked out of the house, and then a person we both know had a cup of coffee with her, do I have the right to yell "OMGNO U ARE INTERFERING WITH MY FAMILY $#@*)(FWE?!?"

Oh, by the way, who was that disgusting nation whose troops opened fire on unarmed nuns and children ( Read more... )

Absolutely adooooore this guy

Okay, okay, full credits to bludger1985 for bringing up his act when we were discussing TGYH one day......

Love how he's funny without resorting to plain obnoxiousness. Okay, he can be obnoxious too, but he's always so....educatedly obnoxious. It's hilarious XD

"It's strange to have a segment consisting entirely of American ( Read more... )